How does PHP in 2026 compare with the current ideas about designing modern languages? This article takes stock of the criteria of closures, objects, pattern matching, generics, and an unconventional a...

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For eight months, every <head> tag on my 104k page Laravel directory ran through a homegrown Blade component. At the start of August I replaced all of it with the new laravel/head package. Here's the ...

I recently moved Taskavel from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud, and this is the honest account — not the brochure. Why I made the switch, the inventory and cutover steps that matter, the env-variable h...

A deep dive into modular monoliths, from module APIs and database ownership to cross-module communication, architecture tests, incremental migration, and the signals that justify microservices.

@Crell: once generics land in PHP core, the standard library uses t...

Build a PHPStan custom rule for Laravel end to end: pick the AST node, add an error identifier, register it in phpstan.neon, and cover it with RuleTestCase.

A guide for PHP project maintainers, from the PHP Foundation Ecosystem Security Team

A practical Laravel explanation of how N+1 queries happen in Eloquent relationships and how eager loading, loadMissing, withCount, relationship autoloading, and lazy-loading prevention help solve them...

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Updated for the stable v1.0.0 package release (August 2026). The original project has been...

A practical deep-dive into Laravel's Concurrency facade and job batching for parallel workloads — patterns, pitfalls, and production-ready code examples.

A job failed in production at 2am. Memory limit exhausted. Process killed. The Artisan command exported orders. It worked fine in development with 500 rows. In production with 800,000 rows, it consum...

An introductory guide to the many ways you can contribute to PHP, both to the language and to the community.

Nobody decides whether a language is modern. What gets decided is whether you can bet a decade on it: who owns it, how upgrades arrive, how it scales, and whether you can still hire for it in year six...

Learn how to configure multiple Filament panels with separate auth guards and optimize table queries for large datasets in production Laravel apps.

Pest 5's Tia Engine re-runs only the tests your changes affected. How test impact analysis works in Laravel, what it costs you, and the honest limitations.

Migrate from S3 to R2 without downtime using Laravel 13's read-through filesystem driver. New writes land on the destination, legacy reads promote on access.

How I built a small bash CLI that gives me a fully working parallel copy of any Laravel app, with its own database, domain and PHP version, in one command.

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Double has been designed to be read by a human. This code reads like a sentence: it creates a double for BookRepository. That double expects find to be…

Learn how Laravel Pipelines make order processing easier to test, extend, and understand with focused processing steps.

Easter eggs, developer frustrations, and self-deprecating comments buried in the php-src codebase.

I recently upgraded our app to use Pest 5 and leverage it's new TIA engine. What should have been a straightforward performance win turned into a multi-hour deb...

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Breaking down the 151.37 PoU score: 5.9 pages per visit, 2,600 AI agent clients, and what's next for the Laravel package health directory.

Stop letting undocumented fields into your Laravel API. Write the JSON Schema first, then enforce it in middleware, DTOs, and your Pest test suite.

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A deep dive into PHP attributes, from metadata and Reflection to practical design patterns, Laravel examples, performance, testing, and the cases where explicit code is better.

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In this episode, Matt Stauffer sits down with Taylor Otwell, creator and CEO of Laravel, just days before Laracon in Boston, and gets into why Laravel has become such a natural fit for building wit...

MySQL's LATERAL derived tables solve the top-N-per-group problem cleanly. Here is how PHP and Laravel developers use them with joinLateral and raw SQL.

Every year, Tighten builds a puzzle for Laracon. We’ve run typing challenges, coding challenges, and, last year, an entire game-building challenge. It's a fun chance for us to build something for th...

I was randomly drifting through Github trending PHP repositories, and checking how popular projects use `rector.php`. A lot of them use it extensively, with [prepared sets](https://getrector.com/docum...